Letter to the editor: Two-party system failing

Our two-party democracy is not working! The U.S. economy for middle-income Americans is hanging by a thread with the rate of inflation of food, housing, utilities and fuels at 42-year highs. Stock market retirement savings are down about 25%, and federal spending and debt are at massive high levels.

The southern border is on fire with record drug (fentanyl) deaths. Criminals and illegals spreading over the entire country. Shootings, killings and homelessness on our city streets are exploding while our police, border security and military are at record low recruitment.

Meanwhile, the left-wing socialists driving the Democratic Party have an extreme agenda about more spending, taxes and regulations, no fossil fuels, less punishment for criminals, less border security, more gender and sexual identity, and extreme climate change concerns, all that most moderates of both parties now reject. And to get home for Christmas, the Nancy Pelosi-led Democrats just passed a mammoth $1.7 trillion (yes that’s not million, or billion), over 4,000-page spending bill that few in Congress read, and that our country clearly cannot afford.

Pure big government socialism never worked in all the countries it was tried. It leads to big government spending, record handouts, debt, hyper- inflation and protests, and can often evolve into an authoritarian government with fewer personal freedoms, as in Russia, China and Cuba. If we don’t stop electing left-wing, big-government socialists into power, we may soon be seeing the destruction of the strongest, most free and most successful democracy the world has known.

Ron Raymond

Buffalo Township